Portuguese oncologists’ practices regarding female fertility preservation: Which barriers most relate to these practices?
This study aims to investigate the current practice patterns of Portuguese oncologists with different clinical specialties regarding female fertility preservation (FP) and to determine the relative endorsement of different barriers to these practices. A total of 111 doctors with different clinical s...
| Publicado en: | European Journal of Cancer Care Vol. 27; no. 2; pp. 1 - 13 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Mar2018
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=128731146&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 128731146 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 09615423 80B jtl: European Journal of Cancer Care issn: 09615423 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Mar2018 vid: 27 iid: 2 pid: 480 pub: Wiley-Blackwell place: Malden, Massachusetts artinfo: ui: 128731146 128731146 128731146 10.1111/ecc.12812 128731146 ppf: 1 ppct: 12 formats: tig: atl: Portuguese oncologists’ practices regarding female fertility preservation: Which barriers most relate to these practices? aug: au: Melo, Cláudia Fonseca, Ana Silva, Cristina Almeida‐Santos, Teresa Canavarro, Maria Cristina affil: Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal sug: subj: Physician Attitudes Evaluation Oncologists Portugal Fertility Preservation Portugal Oncologic Care Portugal Decision Making, Clinical Human Portugal Descriptive Research Descriptive Statistics Physician-Patient Relations Communication Skills Cross Sectional Studies Summated Rating Scaling Questionnaires Male Female Convenience Sample Effect Size Chi Square Test Adult Middle Age Regression Age Factors Time Factors Adult: 19-44 years Middle Aged: 45-64 years Male Female ab: This study aims to investigate the current practice patterns of Portuguese oncologists with different clinical specialties regarding female fertility preservation (FP) and to determine the relative endorsement of different barriers to these practices. A total of 111 doctors with different clinical specialties assisting female cancer patients of childbearing age at Portuguese clinical institutions completed a self‐report questionnaire to assess their current practice patterns regarding female FP and their perceptions of the barriers to these practices. Although the majority of the oncologists reported discussing the reproductive future with their patients, 2.8% and 7.2% of these clinicians reported never informing about the risk of infertility and about FP, respectively, and 75.8% of the participants have referred fewer than ten patients to a reproductive medicine doctor. Time with patients was the strongest endorsed barrier to these practices. A stronger endorsement of the barriers “oncologists’ communication skills” and “patient‐related factors” was related to a lower frequency of informing about both the risk of cancer‐related infertility and about FP. It is important to overcome the intrinsic barriers that emerged as being the most relevant to oncologists’ FP practices and that can be modified, namely the lack of communication skills and the oncologists’ perceptions of their patients’ characteristics. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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